Thousands of people across nine public housing towers in Melbourne have been ushered into an unprecedented lockdown to clamp down on Victoria’s surge in coronavirus cases., on top of 108 new cases on Saturday, taking the total number of infections in the state recorded during the pandemic to 2,536.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews acknowledged on Sunday the lockdowns would not be a pleasant experience. The operation will see public health workers go door-to-door on every floor of the towers to test every resident that has not already returned a positive test. "There has been a lot of work overnight to make sure we can connect those people with the services that are very important to them, just as mental health support, just like basic food … right across the board," he said.
The restrictions on tenants of the affected buildings are much tighter than the stay-at-home orders on 12 other Melbourne postcodes, and came without notice. "We have been scared, and we have thought that the government had forgotten us," Flemington resident Awatif Taha wrote in The Guardian.Legal groups have voiced concerns about the possibility of racial profiling by police, given many tower residents are from multicultural backgrounds.
"A number of people in the estate come from communities where there’s been war and from highly-traumatic experiences. So having numbers of police turn up on their doorstep is really traumatic experience," she said on Sunday.
Wow! Victoria looks pretty racist here...locking down 9 PH towers just 4 a spike in CONFIRMED cases (no deaths in over a week). All residents I have seen & read about R not white. Multicultural building. Very racist & I don’t use that word easily. Abridging freedoms & liberty 2!
Do they get a chance to say no, like the other 10, 000 Victorians? postcodematters
Brutal to lock people in their homes like that. God bless the Sikhs and other folks giving them free food
I’d like to think this is all a hoax for a major operation to weed out the illegal immigrants and overstayers🤔🤔🤔
How come the public housing tenants are literally being locked in, however where there are other large clusters/breakouts, no one else is being locked in their homes? I can’t see how any govt has the right to do this.
Wouldnt it be alot easier and cheaper to hand out HCQ and zinc.
That’s exactly like it was done in Wuhan.
Their Body their Choice Show some bloody consistency..
The residents should just announce they are holding a BLM 'street party' - that gives them instant immunity to the rules, under 'progressive' mandate.
The apartments in Pripyat, overlooking the Chernobyl reactors are you now MUH HUHUHUHUH!! *starts singing Sovietly*
Hmm. That will go down well. 10,000 are allowed to say no but immigrants staying in public housing can't? They don't have rights?
Don’t give rental assistance if they won’t take a test.
Police State. Totally unacceptable in Australian society.
That’s what happens when you accept ‘free money.’ You become subject of and too the state. Everyone must pay someway..
And if they refuse the test? Another 24 days.
slsandpet This article makes no sense. It takes 3 days for results. Repeat testing rules out false negatives.
Just leave them alone.
Didn't the world get amazingly upset when China did this Hhhhhhmmmmm
How is it now, that a politician says so, soo it is so? 💯 draconian Victorian dictatorship. Watch out rest of Australia, your state could be next, if you allow it.
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